ابو فراس الحمداني. أبو فراس الحمداني.. أسره الروم فخرج بأشهر القصائد

He is considered among the greatest figures of classical The Byzantine general led a raid of 1,000 or 1,300 men in the vicinity of Manbij, and when Abu Firas set out with only seventy men to obstruct their plundering, he was captured
His near-contemporary, the eminent scholar and statesman , summed up the esteem in which Abu Firas was held already in the 10th century in a phrase that was frequently quoted by later authorities: "Poetry began with a king i

افضل قصائد ابو فراس الحمداني

Sources [ ]• 315, 317.

أبو فراس الحمداني البدر الذي افتقده قومه الفارس المغوار
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أبو فراس الحمداني
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ابو فراس الحمداني قصائد
119—120
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119—120 Brill

أبو فراس الحمداني.. أسره الروم فخرج بأشهر القصائد

Work and legacy [ ] Abu Firas enjoys a prominent position among the greats of classical.

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أســـ.ـره الروم وتخلى عنه سيف الدولة فكتب قصيدة ملحمية تُبـ.ـكي الصخر .. فراس فارس السيف والقلم
He was ransomed in 966, and was killed in 968, when he raised a revolt against his nephew , Sayf al-Dawla's successor
كتب ومؤلفات أبو فراس الحمداني
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أراك عصي الدمع
Gibb, his personal traits helped spread his reputation: from his noble descent and fair appearance, his bravery and generosity, to his tendency to egotism and over-reaching ambition, "he lived up to the Arab ideal of chivalry which he expressed in his poetry"